Before we left on vacation, I glanced at my garden and I didn't think I had any zucchini. Boy, was I wrong. I now have three of this size. (I didn't even plan to plant zuccini. I was walking at the Botanic Garden one day, and they were giving away seeds, so I said, "Sure, I'll take one." One. Sigh.)
We have several of these flying-saucer shaped yellow squash on two plants. I already sauted one for dinner the other night and gave one to my neighbor.
And I have six tomato vines, all heavily laden like this . . . and Michael hardly eats any tomatoes. What was I thinking?
Not to mention that I have beets and carrots ready to eat. And my green beans, which I planted late on purpose, are now setting blossoms.
I feel as though this is some sort of object lesson that God can provide abundance when we are just looking to get by.
At any rate, we're going to be eating healthfully and spending a lot less on food for the next month or so.
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Here comes the "three seasons of zucchini!"
1. You eat it fried with all your meals.
2. You are getting sick of it fried, so you start doing zucchini bread, bars, cake, etc.
3. You give it away to anyone fool enough to take it.
I vote for zucchini bread and you can freeze it! Looks yummy...too bad I'm not your neighbor :)
Zucchini boats with tomatoes:
Cut zucchini in half
scoop zucchini out leaving shell intact
Chop zucchini
Dice fresh tomatoes
Dice onion (one slice per zucchini
Saute onion in butter w/ minced garlic
add zucchini and tomato and saute just till warm
spoon mixture into zucchini shells
mix bread crumbs (2 tablespoons per zucchini) with melted butter (1/4 tblsp per tblslp butter) and parmesan cheese and sprinkle on top of filled shell
stick under broiler till crumb top is brown
Eat up. Yum Yum
Pattypan squash (the disks) is one of my favorites. That variety of zucchini is so pretty! Have any idea what it's called?
Isn't it just the best time of year? I love eating from the garden, especially the tomatoes and corn. But peppers are special too. Beans and ohh...it's grand. So glad to hear you've got a bounty!
Yes, you will be eating well! I think I have more tomatoes than I can use this year as well.
I'm not a veggie gardener so I find it quite amazing to see things grow like that. Once my kids grew two huge pumpkins in the front yard and it was fun to watch them take over the yard!
Yes, squash is a good object lesson about God's abundance! It certainly produces!
Yay for fresh picked produce! I wish I were your neighbor -- I could help out with those tomatoes for sure :-)
The first year we had a vegetable garden we overproduced almost everything! We had enough carrots to last through the winter and we had to buy a freezer to cope with all the broccoli and courgettes (zucchini)!
What a bountiful harvest. Makes me want to bake zucchini pie. I love fresh veggies. Who needs meat?
That is so awesome!
Your six tomato plants with only one tomato eater in the family reminded me of the year my husband planted thirty (30) tomato plants, with just the two of us at home. I took tomatoes to my co-workers, made tomato preserves, labored over chili sauce (from the Joy of Cooking recipe; I highly recommend it), ate tomatoes at every meal, and still there were tomatoes that had to go to the compost heap. What was HE thinking?
I really liked your tomato poem from a few days ago.
Zucchini in particular get out of control really fast!
We just had a wonderful meal at a friend's house which consisted mainly of wonderful fresh veggies from her garden - zucchini, yellow tomatoes (delicious!) and fresh green beans!
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